Dollars for Profs

Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest

Published Dec. 6, 2019

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Filing Type

Conflict of Interest

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Aoy Tomita Mitchell

Medical College of Wisconsin, Department: Surgery

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

TAI Diagnostics, LLC

Disclosed Value
Listed Reason
Intellectual property rights (e.g., royalties, patents, copyrights) not from the awardee Institution

This research aims to develop a noninvasive biomarker for transplant rejection. TAI Diagnostics, LLC (TAI) is a molecular diagnostics company that will have licensed IP invented by Michael Mitchell and Aoy Tomita-Mitchell, and will develop and commercialize a clinical test for detecting fetal chromosomal abnormalities from maternal blood. The same assay can be used to quantify donor DNA present in recipient plasma in research but requires additional data from our lab at MCW. In this study, the Mitchells will utilize the assay developed by TAI off label because it is the fastest way to achieve accurate data in order to advance an in-house test optimized for transplant rejection monitoring. Any new inventions of the Mitchells under this federally funded grant will be owned by and licensing will be controlled by the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Listed Research Project
Targeted, Highly Sensitive, Non-Invasive Cardiac Transplant Rejection Monitoring

We will develop a non-invasive method for monitoring rejection in children and adults with heart transplants. The current gold standard for rejection monitoring is done by biopsy, which is costly and accompanied by risk, especially for children. Our method is rapid, safe and cost effective enabling sensitive high frequency monitoring with short and long term benefits for all transplant recipients.

Filed on April 25, 2014.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Aoy Tomita Mitchell Medical College of Wisconsin Conflict of Interest Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. Value cannot be readily determined
Aoy Tomita Mitchell Medical College of Wisconsin Conflict of Interest TAI Diagnostics, LLC Value cannot be readily determined
Aoy Tomita Mitchell Medical College of Wisconsin Conflict of Interest Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. >$600,000
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